Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Phoenix of Uganda Assurance Company Ltd recently rebranded to Mauritius Union Assurance Company Limited (MAU). The company’s MD, Latimer Kagimu Mukasa spoke to The Independent’s Julius Businge about this development and related sector issues. What is your general assessment of Uganda’s insurance sector as we …
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BoU says it’s not responsible for secrecy of customers’ information Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Privacy of customer data is the bedrock of the banking sector around the world but for a section of Uganda’s commercial banks, this code seems to be slowly eroding— posing a big risk to the industry …
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How Museveni’s meddling complicates hiring and work Kampala, Uganda | AGNES E NANTABA | Just days after Jennifer Musisi announcing that she was resigning as executive director of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), experts started discussing her likely successors and the challenges that await them. Musisi announced on Oct.15 that she …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Kampala-based law firm, KTA Advocates, is in the process of patenting the long-horned Ankole Cow as a unique livestock specific to Ankole region in particular and Uganda in general. Kenneth Muhangi, a partner in KTA Advocates, says the protection of the image of the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has dismissed reports of ghost groups and missing funds in the Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) and the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP). The ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Pius Bigirimana, who also doubles as the ministry’s accounting officer, …
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KCCA, WFP concerned as number of children without food grows from 13.5% to 18% Kampala, Uganda | AGNES E NANTABA | More people are going hungry in Kampala district; home of the nation’s capital. This is odd because Kampala is the center of the richest people in Uganda. But as many …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has a new bridge, after a 14-year wait. The new bridge, officially called the Source of the Nile Bridge, is expected to relieve the old Owen Falls Bridge in the same area, which was commissioned in 1954 and is well past its lifespan of …
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The real story behind Kampala, Uganda | AGNES E. NANTABA | Events that led Jennifer Musisi, the Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to offer to resign appear to have climaxed on Oct. 05. But when The Independent interviewed her soon after she announced her resignation, Musisi insisted on …
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Why 30 years later, we should not condemn but sympathise with the president’s fanciful and failed dreams THE LAST WORD | ANDREW MWENDA | Last week someone sent me a video of President Yoweri Museveni speaking on December 22, 1988. In it, the President who was just two years in …
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Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | As the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo rose to 168, Uganda continued to be on full alert, stepping up surveillance after announcing that tests had shown that the epidemic had not crossed the border. The World Health Organisation (WHO) team in Kasese, …
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